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The 2017 Longer List Is Here

We intimately understand this truth because we watch as our individual Polaris jurors unearth musical gems throughout the year and recommends these records to their fellow members.

Our cross-country cast of jurors then submits ballots based on these album recommendations to create our 40 album Long List each June before whittling that down to a 10 album Short List each July. Those 10 records are what the 11-member Grand Jury debates at the Polaris Gala (being held this year Sept. 18 at The Carlu in Toronto) to determine the year’s Polaris Music Prize winning album.

Each year we have absolute confidence that our winning album, as well as those on the Short and Long Lists, are records of deep artistic merit.

But in the Polaris universe we also consider the whole conversation — what people loved, what they didn’t love, what should have made the list, what shouldn’t have — to be incredibly valuable. As such, we’ve decided once again to give devoted musical searchers the chance to dig even deeper into the records that turned on our jury this year.

We’ve compiled this Longer List.

This list of 213 titles accounts for every eligible album that was officially recommended by at least juror or received one vote in 2017.

As a bonus, we got a number of jurors to break down this Longer List for Episode 9 of the Polaris Podcast. Listen to that HERE.

The Longer List:

A Tribe Called Red — We Are The Halluci Nation

Lydia Ainsworth — Darling Of The Afterglow

Alaclair Ensemble — Les Frères Cueilleurs

Anciients — Voice of the Void

Arkells — Morning Report

Jay Arner — II

Auroch — Mute Books

Austra — Future Politics

Avec le soleil sortant de sa bouche — Pas pire pop, I Love You So Much

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